{"id":298,"date":"2007-10-10T18:04:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T23:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=298"},"modified":"2025-01-13T22:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T22:51:05","slug":"voting-is-better-than-a-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Voting is better than a lottery."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Every<\/strong> time you vote, you help lead your land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost every time you buy a lottery ticket, you&#8217;ve thrown your money away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So how come there are so many people who buy lottery tickets every week, who say &#8220;I never vote. It doesn&#8217;t make any difference.&#8221;*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>* overheard on the way to the polling station tonight.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time you vote, you help lead your land. Almost every time you buy a lottery ticket, you&#8217;ve thrown your money away. So how come there are so many people who buy lottery tickets every week, who say &#8220;I never vote. It doesn&#8217;t make any difference.&#8221;* * overheard on the way to the polling station [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3241,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/3241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}